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1. The Pride Is Right

Jeremiah 9:23-24

Sermon

James Merritt

... words, the most brilliant wisdom the world has to offer is just foolishness to an omniscient God. V.25 goes on to say, "Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men." You see, there are two things about human wisdom that make it a poor place to place your pride or your trust. First of all, human wisdom alone can never know God. V.21 of this same chapter says, "For since, in the wisdom of God, the world through wisdom did not know God." Prov. 1:7 says, "The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge ...

2. Pride: The Deadliest of the Seven Deadly Sins

Luke 18:9-14

Sermon

R. Curtis Fussell

... devoted husband, he was honest in all his business practices. He tithed his earnings to the church. Here was a man who was everything we want in being a faithful follower of God, a model of faith for our children and even us adults. But his heart was full of pride. He prayed, "God, I thank you that I am not like other people." A sign outside a church captures this scene: "If you look down on others, then how can you look up to God?" It is a contradiction. You see, if God wanted us to pat ourselves on the ...

3. Pride Is a Noxious Weed in the Garden of Life

Luke 18:9-14

Sermon

R. Robert Cueni

... . I could never do a thing like that.’” Every Sunday morning, well-educated, well-intentioned, hard working, moral people come to church without giving much thought to the fact that self-confidence and success make a near perfect soil for the noxious weed of pride to germinate, take root, and grow. The very moment we believe ourselves incapable of being tempted is the moment we are most vulnerable. Two people went up the temple to pray. The prayers of each were answered. The first told God how good he ...

4. Six Nails of the Cross I: The Nail of Pride

Mark 12:35-40

Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... but it is one of the nails that punctured the flesh of Jesus and held him to the cross. The torture and pain inflicted upon Jesus by our thinking we are better than we are is barbaric. Jesus was stinging with his comments about the religious who survived on false pride. There were few who were not reached by his comparison of the Pharisee with the publican. "God be merciful to me, a sinner," is not only the insight of one man, but the key to salvation for us all. Any person who doesn't believe that he is in ...

5. From Pride to Humility

Luke 18:9-14

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... things or to himself who needs to prove all things? What has this tax collector got to do with this Pharisee's righteousness? What is he trying to prove? Is he trying to prove something to himself, trying to help himself out a little bit? It's that stuff that pride is made of, that inner need that we have again and again always to be in comparison with somebody else. “I'm better than," or “I'm worse than," or “I wish I could make up to…". You know what that's like. It lingers in the human soul. C ...

6. Four Types of Pride

Matthew 23:1-12

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John K. Bergland

... humanity's basic sin our unwillingness to acknowledge our creatureliness, our self-elevation in one word, PRIDE. Neibuhr described the four types of pride: 1. The pride of power wants power to gain security for self or to maintain a power position considered to be secure. 2. Intellectual pride rises from human knowledge that pretends to be ultimate knowledge. It presumes to be final truth. 3. Moral pride claims that its standards for virtue test and measure all righteousness. Niebuhr observed that most evil ...

7. Pride

Mark 12:35-44; Matt. 23

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John K. Bergland

... up humanity's basic sin -- our unwillingness to acknowledge our creatureliness, our self-elevation, in one word: PRIDE. Neibuhr described the four types of pride: The pride of power wants power to gain security for self or to maintain a power position considered to be secure. Intellectual pride rises from human knowledge that pretends to be ultimate knowledge. It presumes to be final truth. Moral pride claims that its standards for virtue test and measure all righteousness. Neibuhr observed that most evil ...

8. The Lord Abhors the Pride of Israel

Amos 6:8-14

Understanding Series

Elizabeth Achtemeier

... initiated. That attack will destroy the great stone house (probably a reference to the palace of the king) like some giant fist smashing down upon it (cf. 3:15), and it will destroy the little houses made from clay. No one will survive, for Israel is allowed no pride except its pride in God (Wolff, Joel and Amos, p. 120; cf. Jer. 9:23–24; 1 Cor. 1:31; 2 Cor. 10:17). 6:12–14 Sin is a mysterious force let loose in the world, according to the Scriptures. Despite the story of sin’s beginning in Genesis 3 ...

9. A Mother's Pride And Joy

Sermon

Ron Lavin

... is a drama of great intensity, great love, great change, great conflict and great challenge. This story begins with Hannah, in the 11th century B.C., praying to the Lord for a son. She was barren. In ancient times barrenness was a disgrace for a woman. A Mother's Pride And Joy As Hanna and her husband arrived at Shiloh for a religious pilgrimage to the place of worship, Hannah prayed. We pick up this prayer at verse one of chapter one of the book of 1 Samuel. She (Hannah) was in deep anguish and was crying ...

10. Pride Ruins Everything

Jeremiah 13:1-11, Jeremiah 13:12-14, Jeremiah 13:15-27

One Volume

Gary M. Burge

... , the report of compliance, and an explanation. The girdle, or loincloth (Hebrew ezor), is more than a belt; it is like a short skirt that reaches down to the knees but hugs the waist. Jeremiah’s symbolic act has a double message, the first of which is the evil of pride. God detests pride (2 Chron. 32:24–26; Prov. 8:13). Arrogance, an exaggerated estimate of oneself, brings the disdain of others and accounts for the evils of verse 10. Second, the sign act pictures the way in which God would take proper ...

11. Hezekiah's Pride, Success and Death

2 Chronicles 32:24-33

One Volume

Gary M. Burge

... , the parallel account in 2 Kings 20 as well as 2 Chronicles 32:31 reveals that his pride leads him to show his royal accomplishments to envoys from a potential ally, the Babylonian king Marduk-Baladan, whose rebellion against the Assyrians is attested in ancient Near Eastern records (see COS 2.118J; 2.119A; cf. Verse Account of Nabonidus). The way Hezekiah deals with this flaw when facing ...

12. Pride Is the Source of Your Problem

John 12:1-11

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William Beausay II

... . When you are Joe Blow, you can do anything you want." That belief was the foundation for his life. Yet even after his foundation crumbled and he lost everything, this man still didn't see the error of his ways. He actually said that he had lost everything but his pride. Beausay pointed out to the man that pride had been the source of all his problems. If he had not been so proud and self-absorbed, he never would have gotten into this mess in the first place.

13. Save Us from Our Sinful Pride

Matthew 21:33-46

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Scott Hoezee

... in life and use it as a pedestal from which to look down on as many people as we can (while also hoping, of course, that all of those people will return the favor and so look up to us). It is no accident that the images typically associated with pride have to do with height: the proud are said to look down their noses at others, are said to always be riding their high horse, are said to have a lofty opinion of themselves and a soaring ego. The pharisees saw themselves that way. High above everyone elses pay ...

14. Body Parts and Pride

Romans 12:1-8

Sermon

Jeff Wedge

... the parts were announced, she made sure to be at school to cheer up her son after what she strongly suspected was going to be a sad experience. To her surprise, the young man came out of the doors of the school with a big smile and bursting with pride. Before she could say a word, he announced, "I made it. I've been chosen to clap and cheer." Not all members in the church have the same function, and we must be very careful to value the functions of all members. One of the most important functions, perhaps ...

15. Pride

Luke 18:9-14

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James Merritt

... an "i" problem. Five times you will read the little pronoun "i" in these two verses. He was stoned on the drug of self. He suffered from two problems: inflation and deflation. He had an inflated view of who he was, and a deflated view of who God was. His pride had made him too big for his spiritual britches. C. S. Lewis once said, "A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and of course, as long as you are looking down, you can't see something that's above you."

16. Resisting Pride and Self-righteousness

Deut 9:1-29

One Volume

Gary M. Burge

The victory Israel is about to achieve will be the Lord’s doing, not Israel’s. It will be an expression of God’s grace and not of this nation’s prowess. Once again Israel is summoned to listen (9:1), as in Deuteronomy 6:4–9. They will face the giants (Anakim), of whom they were previously terrified (Deut. 1:28), but the emphatic thrice-repeated “he” in the Hebrew of verse 3 reminds them of the initial words of the Ten Commandments, “I am the Lord your God”: “He [is the one] who goes over before you as a ...

17. Shelley on Pride

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Percy Bysshe Shelley

I met a traveler from an antique land Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed, And on the pedestal these words appear: "My name is Ozymandias, king of kings, Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!" Nothing beside ...

18. The Way Up Is Down!

Mark 9:30-37

Sermon

Robert Leslie Holmes

... die, we die to the Lord. So, whether we live or die, we belong to the Lord. — Romans 14:7-8 The praise song of pride is not "How Great Thou Art" but "How Great I Am!" God alone created us and anything good about us. At the end of the ... it for the advancement of his kingdom." In that spirit, we live mindful that whatever we have we have received from Christ. Nor does crushing pride mean that we are not to be ambitious about improving ourselves. Considering what it cost Christ to redeem us, we owe it to him ...

19. The Forgotten Virtue

Philippians 2:1-11

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

... the court of the Jews, and no matter how much a proselyte Gentile became devoted to the faith of Judaism, he could never step over that stumbling block into the court of the Jews, because he hadn’t been born a Jew. That was an exclusive distinction, a mark of pride. Pride is like the light that we have on the inside of our cars. When you turn on that light at night, it turns the windows into mirrors. The only thing you see is your own reflection - you can’t see where you’re going. You have to turn out ...

20. Dealing With The Dividing Walls

Ephesians 2:11-22

Sermon

James W. Moore

... point of clear: When we live under the spell of prejudice, we become something much less than what God meant us to be… and we need to be redeemed and converted… by the beautiful sacrificial love of Christ. Christ breaks down the dividing walls of pride… and the dividing walls of prejudice. III THIRD AND FINALLY, THERE IS VENGEANCE. Vengeance… the angry, bitter spirit that will not forgive, that nurses its wrath to keep it warm, that broods and festers and looks for a chance to get ‘em back… what ...

21. The Shared Life of the People of God, Part 2

Galatians 6:1-10

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... his cross daily, and follow me.” That is at the very heart of the Gospel. But that self-denial is not to be seen as self-depreciation, or any form of devaluating the self. We need to look carefully at Paul’s words. He’s warning us about a false pride. Look at verse 3 again: “For if anyone thinks he is something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself.” Every time I read that verse I think of a Banty Rooster. Now the right word for that is Bantam Rooster - I was shocked a few weeks ago when I ...

22. One Nation Under God

2 Chronicles 7:14

Sermon

James Merritt

... Justices hate only two words in the Pledge of Allegiance. First of all, they hate the word "under" because they don't want to be "under" anybody, and they hate the word "God" because they want God totally out of the picture. Just like those Justices, America reeks with pride, and the stench of our self sufficiency is a nauseating odor to the nostrils of a Holy God. We are too good to hang the Ten Commandments on the walls of our state houses. We are too wise to hang the Ten Commandments on the halls of our ...

23. Nebuchadnezzar’s Judgment and Repentance

Daniel 4:28-37

Teach the Text

Ronald W. Pierce

... is gracious and compassionate to restore the repentant sinner. Exhort your listeners to practice restoration of those who raise their eyes toward heaven, of those who are moving toward God rather than away from him. Warn them sternlyto watch out for their own pride, especially a spiritual pride, when seeking to assist others. 3. God is sovereign over heaven and earth. When we look earnestly at the person of God, we are compelled to honor and glorify him. This is why it is so important to keep the focus of ...

24. Trials and Temptations

James 1:1-18, James 1:19-27

Understanding Series

Peter H. Davids

... 4:1–10 will make this crystal clear. 1:9 One sign of trust in God is the ability to see beyond present circumstances. Here James returns to a theme of verse 2 and makes it more concrete when he says, The brother in humble circumstances ought to take pride.… The person must be the brother, for only the Christian has the resources to see beyond the present circumstances. The believer is a member of the community that belongs to the coming age but also a member of a community of the poor in the present age ...

25. Our Most Common Sin

Luke 18:9-14

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... attempt—and so on, through as many stages as you please. But don’t try this too long, for fear you awake his sense of humor and proportion in which case he will merely laugh at you and go to bed.” [1] Now, being aware of the danger of pride doesn’t mean that we don’t look at ourselves, that we don’t examine our consciences and confess our sins. That’s a very important part of praying. To scrutinize our life, to look at ourselves in relation to others, to look at ourselves in relation to God ...

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